Improvement in fastenings for blinds and windows



I if" UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. L. REYNOLDS, OF NEWBURG, NE-W YORK.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,339, dated March 20, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. REYNOLDS, of Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Blinds and Tindows; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure lis a section of the window sill, sash, and blind, with my fastener shown also partially in section. Fig. 2 is a plan ot' said fastener on the blind. Fig. 3is an elevation sidewise of the fastener' or latch for the sash, and Fig. 4 is a front view of the same. Fig. 5 is a side view of the catch for the blind, and Fig. 6 is a plan of the sill-plate.

Similar marks of reference denote the same parts.

The nature ot' my said invention consists in a sill-plate combined with a catch extending from the blind, and with a latch on the window, the sill-plate holding the blind-catch whether the window is open or shut, or locking the window when the blinds are closed or thrown back, and when both window and blinds are closed the parts are locked together so securely that they cannot be opened, eX- cept from the inside, without breaking the parts.

In the drawings, a is the window-sill; b, a portion of the lower sash; c, a portion of the blinds; all ot which may be otl any usual or desired character.

d is a catch-bar attached to the blind c by aplate, e, and hinge 4, orin any other convenient manner, the hinge et allowing the catchbar el to be folded back against the blind when said blindis opened. Atthe end of this catchbar d is a catch, 1, and upon said bar d is a knob or head, 2, by which the catch 1 can be operated to hook or unhook said catch l with the sill-platej'. The catch 1 takes inside and below the sill-plate j', against the edge thereof, in an opening provided in the sill for the reception of said catch 1. This sill-plate f being below the sash, when said sash is closed down upon the end of d the catch cannot be unhooked.

The latch gis inserted upward from the lower edge of the sash b into a hole provided for its reception.

i is the spring of the latch secured by the screw at the lower end, and a pin may passV through a hole in the upper ends, as seen by dotted lines inFig.1, to holdthe parts securely in the sash. A screw-stud, h, passing through the sash b into the latch g, is employed to disconnect the latch end 3 from the sill-platej'by pressing the same back.

It will now be seen that the latch end 3, taking against the outer and under edge of the sill-plate f, securely holds thc window-sash closed when shut down, and that said end 3 passing into a mortise 5 in the catch-bar d and taking underlhe sill-platef, securely holds the parts together so that neither windows nor blinds can be opened without breaking the parts.

What I cla-im, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. rlhe combination of the sill-plate fand catch-bar d, constructed and applied as and for the purposes specified.

2. The combination of the sill-plate j' and sp1-in g-latch g, as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination ofthe sill-platef, springlatch g, and catch-bar d, the parts being constructed and operating as set forth.

In Witness whereof l have hereunto set my signature this second day of December, A. D. 1865.

G. L. REYNOLDS.

/Vitnesses:

W. H. GERARD, GEORGE BECK. 

